Jimpster and Ralph Lawson interview each other on th estate of house music for Beatportal…
Everyone loves a good back-to-back DJ session. When we saw that Britain’s top deep house dogs, Ralph Lawson and Jimpster, were scheduled to play together at Shindig in Newcastle this weekend during the club’s 18th year of parties, we couldn’t resist offering them a place for an intimate tête-à-tête.
Jamie Odell aka Jimpster’s rise to the top of the deep house tree over the last few years has been nothing short of brilliant. His label Freerange Records has become a home-from-home for deep house protagonists such as Manuel Tur, Milton Jackson, Andre Lodemann, and Tony Lionni, and is now one of clubland’s most respected imprints.
The label has just clocked release No.130, an amazing feat considering its output has been, for the most part, highly consistent.
Ralph Lawson is one of England’s most respected deep house players with a successful live band and high profile record label to boot.
Lawson’s 2020 Vision Recordings recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, and looking at the label’s recent ’15 Years…’ compilation, it’s amazing how many deep house classics the label has put out.
From David Duriez’ raw saxophone hit ‘Get On Deep’, to Soldiers Of Twilight’s 2001 bomb ‘Believe’, and Bobby Peru’s rough electro house roller ‘My Bleeps’, 2020 Vision has flown the flag for deep house magnificently over the years.
We decided the get Jimpster and Ralph Lawson to interview each other about music, DJing, and productions, ahead of their back-to-back gig at Shindig on Saturday.
Inevitably though, with it being two blokes alone in a pub, their conversation drifted off towards football and birds from oop North.
